Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-05


make,
The presiding ofi.er then announced
that the constitutional period OF the
Forty ninth Congress having been com
pleted the Senate stood adjourned with
out day. The dial of the Senate clock
showed that it lacked five minutes of the
hour of noon, but the actual time was
four minutes past.
Senator Hale had not been able within
the seventeen minutes TO which ne was
Limited to have prepared and TO present
the conference report on the general de
fciercy approp- iation bill. Consequently,
that bill has failed to become law
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, March AT 1850 this
morning MIR. Herbert of Alabama sub
mitted the conference report on the rs
val appropriation bill. Agreed to.
| The conference report on the bill reg
ulsting the removal of causes from state
to federal courts, submitted by MT. Gull
berson of Texas, was sgret d to.
At O'Clock this morning the effects Of
| the sixteen hours session were visible in
the appearance of the hall of the House
and on the members Of that body. The
floor was strewn with scraps of paper
and remnants Of documents and reports.
! The atmosphere in the House was very
! impure and oppressive, and was we'll i'm
! pregnsted with tobacco smoke, not
withstanding the repeated appeals
of the Speaker to members requesting
! them to observe the rule which prohibits
smoking on the floor. Excepting dozen
or so of members whose zeal in behalf OF
fsvcrite measures kept them On the alert
to take advantage of an opportunity to
secure recognition, the gentlemen of the
House lapsed into Indifference and
stretched on sofas in the rear of the hsll
and Hobbies, louuging back in their chairs
with their feet elevated on the desks or
grouping together in conversational mood,
they endeavored to ward off the WEAKNESS
consequent upon their long viglls.
A few minutes after Mr.. Blount of
! Georgia announced that the conference
commlttee on the postofiCe appropriation
| bill had reached an agreement by the
recession of the Senate conferees from
the subsidy amendment, the report was
agreed to, thus disposing of the bill
! finally.
Mr.. Ward of Indiana called up the veto
message on the Senate bill for the cree
tion of a public building at La Fayette,
| Ind.
Mr.. Springer of Illinois raised the
question of consideration, and the House
proceeded to kill time until the legisla
tive bill came from the Senate. This bill
arrived about O'Clock, and it was imme-
diately called up by Mr.. Holman, who
explained that the point of difference re-
manning between the two Houses was the
item for secretaries for the Senators.
Mr.. Holman moved thai the House
recede from its disagreement to
the senatorial clerk amendment.
Mr.. Hoiman'S motion received q ms joTity
vote, but Mr.. TaulbeG made poin' Of no
quorum, which consumed the time until
7:30, when his opposition was Withdrawn
and the motion was decided carried, thus
passing the legislative appropriation bill
Although the deficiency bill had not
reached the House yet, on motion OF Mr..
Long Of Massachuset the Senate amends
ments to the bill were non-concurred in,
and the Speaker was authorized TO Rp-
point conference committee.
Vain efforts were made at S O'Clock to
secure an hours recess, but the point OF
no quorum being repeatedly made, call
Of the House was ordered.
Mr.. Miller of Texas p esented The con-
ference report on the bill amending sec
tions 3, l9l and 1872 of the Revised S atutes,
and it was sgreed to. Tae bill provides
that whenever three-fourths of the nation
al banks in any city having a population
of so, 600 shall make application asking
that the name OF thst city shall be added
TO the cities named in sections 5, 1871 and
1872 the Comptroller shall have the author
ity to graft such request, and whenever
three-fOurths of the national banks in
cities having 10000 population shall ask
that that city shall, be central reserve
city like New York the Comptroller shall
have authority to grant such request.
At IL O'Clock, on motion OF MIR. Morri-
son of Illinois, q resolution was adopted
for the appointment of a committee to
inform the President that Congress was
ready TO aoi urn sine die.
Mr. Reed of Name, latch Of Missouri
being in the chair, offered the following
resolution which was adopted unani-
mously by 3 standing vote:
| Resolved, that the thanks of the House
| be hereby rendered to Hon. John G Car
| Isle, Speaker, for the courtesy, ability
and fairness with which he has presided
over the deliberations OF the FOrty-ninth
Congress.
Mr. Forney of Alabama, from the COM
mittee Of conference on the Notifications
bill, reported continued disagreement.
! Mr.. Randall OF Pennsylvania stated that
| the Senate DILL involved an expenditure Of
over $4,000 600. while the House bill,
which msjority of the House coDferees
was willing to adopt, appropriated Sl7,-
100000. He obtained leave to have the
two measures printed in the Record, in
order that the country might Judge be-
tween them.
Mr. Butterworth of Ohio regretted that
Congress must adjourn without taking
step forward in the direC ion OF providing
coast defenses The failure to agree he
attributed to the delay in the conferees
coming together.
Mr.. Reid of Maine criticised the posi-
ton of the House couferees, declaring
that 1t meant the manufacture Of iron
and not steel guns.
MIR. Butterworth replied that this was
an entire mistake. The House conferess
had agreed to appropriations for steel
guns, and he declared that there was not
word OF truth in what the gentleman
said.
MIR. Reed reiterated his statements, ar
guing that under the provisions of the
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